We've asked our resident MVP's to highlight what has excited them about feature updates over the last 6 months.
Its our half year and we would like to take a moment to recap what updates have dropped into Microsoft 365's service portfolio.
In this session we look at what's new with:
- Microsoft Teams
- SharePoint Online
- OneDrive for Business
- Hybrid Work Scenario's
- Securing Hybrid Work
By understanding the new features deployed over the last 6 month's, organization can plan their adoption roadmap more accurately as well as consultants, engineers and end users wanting to embrace the updates.
Artificial intelligence in the post-deep learning era
M365SA UG – WEDNESDAY 13th July 2022 – What's new in Microsoft 365 - 6 months
1. Microsoft 365
M365 South Africa User
Group #M365UGZA
WED 13 July 2022 | 4:30 – 7:00pm SAST
Alistair Pugin
@AlistairPugin
Nicolas Blank
@NicolasBlank
Tracy v/d Schyff
@TracyVDS
Matt Levy
@skrods
It’s our half year and we would like to take a moment to recap what updates have dropped into Microsoft 365's service
portfolio. In this session we look at what's new with:
• Microsoft Teams | SharePoint Online | OneDrive for Business | Hybrid Work Scenarios | Securing Hybrid Work
By understanding the new features deployed over the last 6 months, organizations can plan their adoption roadmap more
accurately as well as consultants, engineers and end users wanting to embrace the updates & features.
Round Table Discussion:
What's new in M365 - Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive
We've asked our
resident MVP's to
highlight what
has excited them
about feature
updates over the
last 6 months.
4. Microsoft Security, Compliance and
Identity UG South Africa
What we're about
This UG focuses on all things Governance, Risk and Compliance
using Microsoft technologies.
We meet on the third Tuesday of every month to talk about all
things Microsoft and how organizations can improve their Cloud
Security Posture using the out of the box tools available from
Microsoft.
This is an online UG.
Microsoft 365
Microsoft Security, Compliance and
Identity User group #MSCIUGZA
47. Resources:
Microsoft 365 Roadmap | Microsoft 365
What's new in Microsoft 365
Microsoft SharePoint Blog - Microsoft Tech Community
Microsoft Teams Blog - Microsoft Tech Community
Microsoft OneDrive Blog - Microsoft Tech Community
https://www.microsoft.com/en-za/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=OneDrive%2CGeneral%20Availability%2CLaunched#owRoadmapMainContent
January:
We’ve revamped the OneDrive sync experience in macOS based on Apple’s new File Provider platform to improve the Finder experience for OneDrive. We are updating the Files On-Demand experience to a more native look and feel, for the latest version of macOS (macOS 12.1 Monterey). CLICK
We're refreshing the Move/Copy user experience in OneDrive and SharePoint to make it easier for you to choose where to move or copy your files and folders.
February:
We're adding a dropdown that allows you to easily switch between multiple document libraries associated with a Team or Site. CLICK
We will be updating OneDrive for Mac to be a universal app that will run natively on Macs with M1.
March:
Improved ways to manage the list of places you've recently accessed or opened a file from. You can pin these places so you can easily and predictably get back to what you’ve been working on.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-za/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=OneDrive%2CGeneral%20Availability%2CLaunched#owRoadmapMainContent
January:
We’ve revamped the OneDrive sync experience in macOS based on Apple’s new File Provider platform to improve the Finder experience for OneDrive. We are updating the Files On-Demand experience to a more native look and feel, for the latest version of macOS (macOS 12.1 Monterey). CLICK
We're refreshing the Move/Copy user experience in OneDrive and SharePoint to make it easier for you to choose where to move or copy your files and folders.
February:
We're adding a dropdown that allows you to easily switch between multiple document libraries associated with a Team or Site. CLICK
We will be updating OneDrive for Mac to be a universal app that will run natively on Macs with M1.
March:
Improved ways to manage the list of places you've recently accessed or opened a file from. You can pin these places so you can easily and predictably get back to what you’ve been working on.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-za/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=OneDrive%2CGeneral%20Availability%2CLaunched#owRoadmapMainContent
January:
We’ve revamped the OneDrive sync experience in macOS based on Apple’s new File Provider platform to improve the Finder experience for OneDrive. We are updating the Files On-Demand experience to a more native look and feel, for the latest version of macOS (macOS 12.1 Monterey). CLICK
We're refreshing the Move/Copy user experience in OneDrive and SharePoint to make it easier for you to choose where to move or copy your files and folders.
February:
We're adding a dropdown that allows you to easily switch between multiple document libraries associated with a Team or Site. CLICK
We will be updating OneDrive for Mac to be a universal app that will run natively on Macs with M1.
March:
Improved ways to manage the list of places you've recently accessed or opened a file from. You can pin these places so you can easily and predictably get back to what you’ve been working on.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-za/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=OneDrive%2CGeneral%20Availability%2CLaunched#owRoadmapMainContent
January:
We’ve revamped the OneDrive sync experience in macOS based on Apple’s new File Provider platform to improve the Finder experience for OneDrive. We are updating the Files On-Demand experience to a more native look and feel, for the latest version of macOS (macOS 12.1 Monterey). CLICK
We're refreshing the Move/Copy user experience in OneDrive and SharePoint to make it easier for you to choose where to move or copy your files and folders.
February:
We're adding a dropdown that allows you to easily switch between multiple document libraries associated with a Team or Site. CLICK
We will be updating OneDrive for Mac to be a universal app that will run natively on Macs with M1.
March:
Improved ways to manage the list of places you've recently accessed or opened a file from. You can pin these places so you can easily and predictably get back to what you’ve been working on.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-za/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=OneDrive%2CGeneral%20Availability%2CLaunched#owRoadmapMainContent
January:
We’ve revamped the OneDrive sync experience in macOS based on Apple’s new File Provider platform to improve the Finder experience for OneDrive. We are updating the Files On-Demand experience to a more native look and feel, for the latest version of macOS (macOS 12.1 Monterey). CLICK
We're refreshing the Move/Copy user experience in OneDrive and SharePoint to make it easier for you to choose where to move or copy your files and folders.
February:
We're adding a dropdown that allows you to easily switch between multiple document libraries associated with a Team or Site. CLICK
We will be updating OneDrive for Mac to be a universal app that will run natively on Macs with M1.
March:
Improved ways to manage the list of places you've recently accessed or opened a file from. You can pin these places so you can easily and predictably get back to what you’ve been working on.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-za/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=OneDrive%2CGeneral%20Availability%2CLaunched#owRoadmapMainContent
January:
We’ve revamped the OneDrive sync experience in macOS based on Apple’s new File Provider platform to improve the Finder experience for OneDrive. We are updating the Files On-Demand experience to a more native look and feel, for the latest version of macOS (macOS 12.1 Monterey). CLICK
We're refreshing the Move/Copy user experience in OneDrive and SharePoint to make it easier for you to choose where to move or copy your files and folders.
February:
We're adding a dropdown that allows you to easily switch between multiple document libraries associated with a Team or Site. CLICK
We will be updating OneDrive for Mac to be a universal app that will run natively on Macs with M1.
March:
Improved ways to manage the list of places you've recently accessed or opened a file from. You can pin these places so you can easily and predictably get back to what you’ve been working on.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-za/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=OneDrive%2CGeneral%20Availability%2CLaunched#owRoadmapMainContent
January:
We’ve revamped the OneDrive sync experience in macOS based on Apple’s new File Provider platform to improve the Finder experience for OneDrive. We are updating the Files On-Demand experience to a more native look and feel, for the latest version of macOS (macOS 12.1 Monterey). CLICK
We're refreshing the Move/Copy user experience in OneDrive and SharePoint to make it easier for you to choose where to move or copy your files and folders.
February:
We're adding a dropdown that allows you to easily switch between multiple document libraries associated with a Team or Site. CLICK
We will be updating OneDrive for Mac to be a universal app that will run natively on Macs with M1.
March:
Improved ways to manage the list of places you've recently accessed or opened a file from. You can pin these places so you can easily and predictably get back to what you’ve been working on.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-za/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=OneDrive%2CGeneral%20Availability%2CLaunched#owRoadmapMainContent
January:
We’ve revamped the OneDrive sync experience in macOS based on Apple’s new File Provider platform to improve the Finder experience for OneDrive. We are updating the Files On-Demand experience to a more native look and feel, for the latest version of macOS (macOS 12.1 Monterey). CLICK
We're refreshing the Move/Copy user experience in OneDrive and SharePoint to make it easier for you to choose where to move or copy your files and folders.
February:
We're adding a dropdown that allows you to easily switch between multiple document libraries associated with a Team or Site. CLICK
We will be updating OneDrive for Mac to be a universal app that will run natively on Macs with M1.
March:
Improved ways to manage the list of places you've recently accessed or opened a file from. You can pin these places so you can easily and predictably get back to what you’ve been working on.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-za/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=OneDrive%2CGeneral%20Availability%2CLaunched#owRoadmapMainContent
January:
We’ve revamped the OneDrive sync experience in macOS based on Apple’s new File Provider platform to improve the Finder experience for OneDrive. We are updating the Files On-Demand experience to a more native look and feel, for the latest version of macOS (macOS 12.1 Monterey). CLICK
We're refreshing the Move/Copy user experience in OneDrive and SharePoint to make it easier for you to choose where to move or copy your files and folders.
February:
We're adding a dropdown that allows you to easily switch between multiple document libraries associated with a Team or Site. CLICK
We will be updating OneDrive for Mac to be a universal app that will run natively on Macs with M1.
March:
Improved ways to manage the list of places you've recently accessed or opened a file from. You can pin these places so you can easily and predictably get back to what you’ve been working on.
The center piece of our investment in intelligence is the Microsoft Intelligent Security Graph. This is how we describe the way that we synthesize a vast amount of data from a huge variety of sources. Every day, we practice security operations at a global scale to protect our customers, in the process analyzing more than 6.5 trillion signals.
We operate 200-plus global cloud, consumer, and commercial services. Everything from outlook.com to Xbox Live to Office 365 to Azure, and so on. And with all of those services, we have a tremendous amount of surface area that we defend. Enterprise Security from Microsoft is employed by 90% of the Fortune 500. And so, we see more attacks than most other companies on any given day. We get a lot of information from defending against those attacks.
We block more than 5 billion distinct malware threats per month - that gives us a great deal of signal into what's happening on endpoints, and what the attacks look like these days.
470 billion emails get analyzed for spam and malware by our Outlook.com and Office 365 email services every month – This telemetry helps us understand the full spectrum of phish attacks and the sophisticated and varied methods used by attackers
We process over 630 billion authentications across our cloud services each month, giving us tremendous insight into what is normal behavior when it comes to sign-ins and authentications, and what is abnormal behavior, and how often is it that someone has the right password, but they're not the person they say they are. We learn a lot about defending that really important control point, the identity, by looking across that set of data.
Bing scans about 18 billion web pages every month, giving us really great insight into what people are doing with web scripting technologies when it comes to attacks and phishing campaigns. And we have a great way to look at that and understand how we should help customers defend based on that information.
On top of all of that we layer shared threat data that we get from our partners, from the researchers here at Microsoft who are part of our 3,500-plus people that are full time on security, and law enforcement agencies that we partner with worldwide through our digital crimes unit, as well as botnet data that we collect through the digital crimes unit. All of that intelligence makes up the Intelligent Security Graph.
And why is it a graph? It's a graph because what's really important is connecting these pieces of intelligence, so that these signals are not just individual points of information. The graph brings them together as something that we can draw patterns across. We can learn from one point of data to influence how we interpret another point of data.
So, the Intelligent Security Graph is something that we are very, very heavily invested in at Microsoft. It's something that we feel is unique to us in this industry.
Key Takeaway: The threats your organization likely faces comes from an interconnected ecosystem, not any single attacker or attack group.
Behind most attackers is a supply chain of criminal (black market) and non-criminal (grey market) services and tools
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This ecosystem consists of an array of both criminal and non-criminal offerings:
Criminal services are offered by criminals with solely illegal use cases.
Non-criminal services offered by gray hat markets could be used for legitimate or criminal purposes (hence “gray” nature of market). An example of this may include search engine optimization (SEO) provider that can boost the click rate of legitimate websites and/or malware attacks.
Key Takeaway: Dark Market Products are notably inexpensive (with a few exceptions like zero days)
This is a sampling of price ranges (from 2018) to give you a sense of what is traded and how much it costs. Like any other market, the prices vary because of supply, demand, and externalities like war/politics/etc.
0Day / Zero Day Exploits are quite expensive, costing as much as $350,000 USD for higher value vulnerabilities. (Zero-Day vulnerabilities are unpatched and otherwise unknown vulnerabilities). The price varies by many factors including ease of exploitation, affected platforms, and exclusivity of use.
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Loads are compromised PCs or mobile devices that can be taken over by the buyer on a temporary or permanent basis and cost pennies up to a dollar for PCs and a few dollars for mobile devices.
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[Distributed] Denial of Service (DOS / DDoS) attack services are focused on slowing or taking down target services or websites. There are many price variables, but average monthly rate is less than $1,000 USD
Proxy services allow an attacker to route traffic through a local IP address range to defeat blocking of traffic from their country.
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Ransomware is sold as a kit and is also offered in an affiliate model where the kit maker takes a percentage of the ransomware profit of the attack.
Spearphishing is usually priced by successful account takeover and costs between USD $100 and $1000
Compromised accounts usually come in bulk in very large blocks. Prices average around $1 USD per 1k accounts and quality varies significantly (from 0.1% up to 20% of the username/password pairs may be valid)
This is a snapshot of the averages to illustrate how the markets work, the prices may vary by time, by target, or by other factors.
Additional Information
This cheapness of resources make the attacker ROI equation quite favorable.
The low cost is partially offset by the speculative nature of attacks. Not all attacks pay off and criminals face risk in conducting illegal activities (jails/fines/etc.), but despite that it remains an lucrative opportunity space for many criminals.